The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Former village school, house, sculptor's studio.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- muted-marble-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1987
- Type
- Former village school, house, sculptor's studio
- Address
- The Old School, the Street, St. Paul Malmesbury Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 832
- Coordinates
- 51.54852, -2.09702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former village school that has been converted into a house and sculptor's studio. It was built in 1851, with additions and alterations made in 1893 and later. The building features squared and coursed rubble with brick and stone dressings, topped with a stone slate roof on the main range. The later rear addition is constructed of brick, while a 20th-century southeast addition has a double Roman tile roof.
The structure consists of a long four-bay range that runs parallel to the road, with additional sections at the rear and northeast. The northwest front showcases three cambered-arched windows with timber cross-mullion fenestration and leaded octagonal glazing. To the right, there is a timber porch featuring a carved bressumer adorned with oak leaves and acorns, along with an archway that bears the inscription: 'COME/YE/CHILDREN/AND/HEARKEN/UNTO/ME/I/WILL/TEACH/YOU/THE/FEAR/OF/THE/LORD'. The porch also includes a Tudor-arched plank door fitted with fine Celtic-style hinges.
A central lateral brick stack, accented with stone dressings and bricks laid in a herringbone bond, is present on the building. At the right gable apex, there is a bell turret capped with a lead pyramidal roof. The southwest wall beneath the turret features leaf carving along with the initials 'RP/CHP/LSW'. The Old School exemplifies the Arts and Crafts embellishments made by the Pollen family to several buildings in Rodbourne.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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